The Arrow of Gold by Joseph Conrad
During the Carlist war, a sailor, the unnamed protagonist, joins the champions of Don Carlos de Bourbon, pretender to the throne of Spain. The Carlists use the youth's attraction to the sea to persuade him to run perilous enterprises for their cause, ventures he later learns have been financed by the mistress and heiress of a rich man's fortune.
"The magical quality of the narrative, the fastidious and unerring distinction of the style, are Conrad at his best" (Spectator) "Doña Rita is only the central figure, not the sole notable figure, in a wonderful group, whose collective impression is that of some splendid, barbaric, yet most delicately and finely wrought example of the jeweler's art." (New York Times)
Joseph Conrad was born Theodor Jozef Konrad Korzeniowski in 1857 in the Ukraine. After twenty years at sea he retired to England, where he devoted himself to writing and published his first novel at the age of thirty-eight. In addition to Lord Jim (1900) and Nostromo (1904), his works include the novel The Secret Agent (1907) and the novella "Heart of Darkness" (1902). He died in 1924.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780812218855 |
| ISBN 10 | 081221885X |
| Title | The Arrow of Gold |
| Author | Joseph Conrad |
| Series | Pine Street Books |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | University of Pennsylvania Press |
| Year published | 2004-04-26 |
| Number of pages | 392 |
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